Word: indianas
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...world. Last week that dawning power was underlined once again: within the span of five days the Navy launched a submarine, three destroyers (Aaron Ward, Buchanan and Fahrenheit) and a battleship. Into the James River at Newport News, Va. smoked the hulk of the 35,000-ton Indiana, six months ahead of schedule...
...From the Indiana's keel-laying to launching only 24 months had elapsed. She was the latest of a class which now has five brand-new battleships in the water, a force which not only has enough speed to run circles around the other 15 U.S. battleships, but enough gunpower to blow them out of the water. When the Indiana joins the fleet, twelve to 14 months from now, armed with nine 16-in. guns, 20 five-inchers, the latest anti-aircraft cannon, she will find four sisters already in service. Two of them (North Carolina and Washington...
...steam pressure of 2,300 lb. per sq. in surpasses highest previous pressures for U.S. central stations by a good 900 lb. Superheated to 940° F., the blasting steam operates the turbine at 3,600 r.p.m., can turn out 76,500 kilowatts. It converts one pound of mediocre Indiana soft coal (11,500 B.t.u.) into one kilowatt hour of electricity...
Since the average U.S. turbine now requires two-thirds more coal, the new turbine thus cuts coal consumption 40% below that of average turbines-a saving of 16,000 tons per month (value: over $30,000) and thus giving its owner, Indiana & Michigan Electric Co. the most economical steam power plant...
First came a report from French Lick that Indiana Republicans had issued a manifesto, read Wendell Willkie out of the party for his support of the Administration's foreign policy. The report was false, but gave a fair indication of the feelings of many a Republican politico...